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Malraiders

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Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:35 PM Jun 2015

The 21 R- Senators who like tortue

Here are their names:

Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a former U.S. attorney and state attorney general
Tom Cotton of Arkansas, an Iraq War combat veteran
Michael Crapo of Idaho
James Risch of Idaho
Daniel Coats of Indiana, who is not expected to seek reelection
Joni Ernst of Iowa, who has served more than two decades in the Army Reserve and National Guard
Pat Roberts of Kansas, a former chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, which oversees the CIA
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate majority leader
David Vitter of Louisiana
Thad Cochran of Mississippi, a former Eagle Scout and Navy veteran, and current chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee
Roy Blunt of Missouri
Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Benjamin Sasse of Nebraska
Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, who said during a congressional hearing into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, “I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment.”
James Lankford of Oklahoma, who holds a graduate degree in divinity and was formerly an evangelism specialist for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination and worked to strip federal courts of jurisdiction to hear cases from Guantanamo Bay detainees
Tim Scott of South Carolina, an evangelical Christian who is opposed to abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, and euthanasia, and once fought to install the ten commandments outside a municipal building where he was an elected official
John Cornyn of Texas, a former state attorney general and associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Orrin Hatch of Utah, who called Jay Bybee, a primary author of Bush era torture memos, “one of the most honorable people you'll ever meet” while defending him against torture critics who wanted to remove him from a federal judgeship.
Mike Lee of Utah, who has opposed extending controversial portions of the Patriot Act as well as the indefinite detention of Americans in the War on Terrorism
John Barrasso of Wyoming

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/these-21-republicans-voted-against-a-torture-ban/396095/

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The 21 R- Senators who like tortue (Original Post) Malraiders Jun 2015 OP
Like it? Hell, Vitter paid for it underpants Jun 2015 #1
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